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A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela
A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela
​Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers refuse to kill.
Kevin Young
Tools for Growing the Commons
Tools for Growing the Commons
The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.
Michel Rauchs
A Letter to Liberals: On Lesser Evils and the Courage to Demand Better
A Letter to Liberals: On Lesser Evils and the Courage to Demand Better
We hear it constantly: "You're too harsh on Democrats. You're helping Republicans by criticizing our side. Now is not the time—we need unity against the rising threat of fascism."
Tim Hjersted
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties, especially the one they think will be more responsive to their opposition.
Tim Hjersted
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
The door is wide open to try something new.
Les Leopold
We're Making 'Tax the Rich' More Than a Slogan
We're Making 'Tax the Rich' More Than a Slogan
Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine.
Max Page
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.
Celina Su
American Socialists Aren’t Tired of Winning
American Socialists Aren’t Tired of Winning
More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.
Branko Marcetic
Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again
Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again
Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of defeating Trumpist authoritarianism in the future.
Christopher D. Cook
We Found a Solution to America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect.
We Found a Solution to America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect.
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
19 min
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
In this video we outline:
30 min
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Critics say a public grocery program would limit consumer freedom, but unlike corporate monopolies, it expands it by adding competition, giving shoppers another choice and pushing private retailers to keep prices in check.
Tim Hjersted
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.
Errol Schweizer
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
A look inside the strategy, structure, and mass organizing powering the Left’s most ambitious municipal project in America.
Grace Mausser
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
Robert Reich
Climate and the Revival of Political Hope
Climate and the Revival of Political Hope
A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps...
Liam Kavanagh
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
Tim Hjersted
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with a cybernetic architecture of open design, time-based reciprocity, and democratic coordination. Rather than offering yet another abstract...
Peter Joseph
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
"The advance of the extreme right, fascism and wars around the world exacerbates the climate crisis and the exploitation of nature and of peoples. The countries of the global North, transnational corporations, and the ruling classes bear the main responsibility for these crises."
People's Summit Towards COP30
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
Fascism is not merely a set of authoritarian habits or unpleasant attitudes. It is a political arrangement designed to centralize power: the fusion of state authority with corporate interests; the suppression of dissent; the mobilization of nationalist mythology to bind the...
Tim Hjersted
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
The Global South did not cause this crisis, but we are determined to define its solution. In Punjab, that solution begins with clean streets, safe water, affordable energy, and credible finance – all bound by one idea: the path out of climate despair runs through green...
Maryam Nawaz Sharif
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks down his suggestions into actionable steps.
Tim Hjersted
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
Chris Hedges
Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, "Kreisler" associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.
Cléo Mieulet
‘Hope Is Alive’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech After Toppling a NYC Dynasty
‘Hope Is Alive’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech After Toppling a NYC Dynasty
The results are in - and Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor-elect of New York City. With a platform to make the city more affordable, he’s made history as New York’s first-ever Muslim mayor and the youngest to hold the office since 1917.
24 min
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Richard Eskow
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
Monopolistic business practices have been illegal in the United States for more than a century. Yet, monopoly power continues to accelerate in our modern commercial landscape. Large, powerful corporations edge out smaller businesses, often citing scale, “efficiency”, and...
88 min
Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age
Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age
As Trump demolishes the old and drives America toward a darker future, the Democrats’ instinct has been to grieve, resist, and dream of restoration. But restoration may be the wrong goal.
Richard Sclove
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
George Lakey
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?
13 min
Designing Land Access With Deep Time in Mind: Moving Toward a Timeless Ethic of Land Stewardship
Designing Land Access With Deep Time in Mind: Moving Toward a Timeless Ethic of Land Stewardship
When we begin to act with deep time in mind, perhaps future generations will remember us not for what we took, but for what we tended, protected, and passed on.
Darby Weaver
What Will Socialism Look Like?
What Will Socialism Look Like?
In this video essay, I examine what ecosocialism might look like in the future. From zero-carbon, accessible, and free public transit, to low-cost housing, an ecosocialist future would seek to bring better well-being to all people and the planet.
21 min
Bioregioning: The Defining Practice of Regenerative Cultures
Bioregioning: The Defining Practice of Regenerative Cultures
One could say that ‘bioregioning’ is our species long-term evolutionary survival pattern and hence a return to it may well be the most promising pathway our species can take through the tumultuous if not catastrophic decades ahead.
Daniel Christian Wahl
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
What do humans who aren't consumers look like? What happens when we find ways of feeding ourselves and each other without buying or selling food?
19 min
Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies
Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies
Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.
Ella Fassler
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
So if we want real change – and a world where future generations of all life, not just human beings, can live in peace with equal rights and justice for all – we have to tackle corporate rights, powers, structures and impunity.
Helena Paul
Your Socialist Grandfather Wants You to Fight for Economic Democracy
Your Socialist Grandfather Wants You to Fight for Economic Democracy
​"The left" must get back to what was its original reason for existence—to fight for one-person, one vote democracy in the economic as well as political systems that govern our lives.
Gary Engler
Tiny Space, Big Harvest – How to Grow Food in a Small Garden
Tiny Space, Big Harvest – How to Grow Food in a Small Garden
Growing food in a small garden can produce a surprisingly big harvest, whether it’s on an urban balcony, in a tiny yard, or even on a countertop or windowsill. It feels pretty special to learn and practice the timeless skill of growing your own food and to be able to eat...
15 min
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
Bryce and Misty have spent the last 12 years building a cob home, homesteading, living off the grid, and homeschooling their two daughters. They live without a car, so for transportation, they use taxis and bicycles, and they eventually hope to have a cart that their two...
29 min
A Guide To Democratic Socialists of America
A Guide To Democratic Socialists of America
Further reading: https://dsa-lsc.org/2025/01/31/a-guide-to-dsa-politics/ (The article that inspired this video) https://www.dsausa.org/resources/faq/  https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/structure/
30 min
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
Imagine a world where the homes we live in, the clothes we wear, and even the sensors in our electronics weren’t manufactured, but grown. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, is shaking up everything from sustainable construction to meatless bacon. It’s turning agricultural...
16 min
We NEED To Nationalize 70% of the Economy
We NEED To Nationalize 70% of the Economy
Are corporations destroying America? From greedflation to wealth inequality, the U.S. economy is collapsing under late stage capitalism. This video explores why industries like healthcare, housing, energy, banks, and utilities should be nationalized and treated as public...
44 min
Why Expanding Congress Would End Gerrymandering
Why Expanding Congress Would End Gerrymandering
The gerrymandering wars are on. All over the country, red and blue states are scrambling to redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms.
16 min
100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great
100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great
The Green New Deal is often framed as a response to climate change — but whether you see it as a crisis or a hoax, the real point is what it delivers here at home: millions of good jobs, lower energy bills, stronger communities, and true energy independence. It’s about...
Films For Action
We Know What To Do | Matthew Cooke
We Know What To Do | Matthew Cooke
"Let's just forget the left versus right stuff for a minute. How do you solve homelessness?
6 min
Zohran Is the Real MAGA | Matthew Cooke
Zohran Is the Real MAGA | Matthew Cooke
Dr. King gave us the playbook less than 60 years ago. His movement didn’t rely on lesser-evil voting—it demanded clear moral commitments. It didn’t campaign for parties—it used direct action to force change. It didn’t beg politicians for justice—it built a movement that made...
8 min
The Shipping Container That Might Replace Solar Farms
The Shipping Container That Might Replace Solar Farms
Exowatt is betting big on forgotten technologies from the 1800s: Fresnel lenses, thermal brick batteries, and Stirling engines, all packed inside a sleek orange shipping container. Their system promises 24/7 dispatchable power at a fraction of the cost of traditional solar...
19 min
Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel
Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel
Economic anthropologist, Jason Hickel, is one of the leading degrowth researchers leading the charge for ecosocialism. He says if we limit the energy demands of the elite and hungry multinational corporations, reimagining economics to support and nurture human dignity, we...
58 min
What If We Went Scorched Earth On Trump | Matthew Cooke
What If We Went Scorched Earth On Trump | Matthew Cooke
Scorched earth is evil incarnate. What if we did the total reverse, as a strategy for winning?
3 min
A Localism Manifesto
A Localism Manifesto
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Michael Shuman
Capitalism Won't Save Us. Here's What Will. | Jason Hickel
Capitalism Won't Save Us. Here's What Will. | Jason Hickel
My guest today is Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and author of two books: The Divide and Less is More. We discuss why a growth-based capitalist economy is incompatible with a...
77 min
24 Hours In an Illegal, Car-free Community
24 Hours In an Illegal, Car-free Community
Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a neighborhood that wasn’t designed around cars? Well - in most of the country that’s actually illegal. But in Tempe, AZ there’s a new development called Culdesac that has managed to make it happen. This community is designed...
17 min
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.
Films For Action
Churning the Earth
Churning the Earth (2024)
In the face of widespread ecological destruction, social injustice, economic deprivation, there are powerful countercurrents. 'Ordinary' people in several parts of India are resisting the disruption of their lives by constructing alternatives in the form of sustainable...
44 min
Why the Left Needs a Rebrand | Solarpunk Alana
Why the Left Needs a Rebrand | Solarpunk Alana
With the far right mastering memes, aesthetics, and short-form content, too many disillusioned people are getting funneled into an alt-right pipeline instead of toward liberatory ideas. This video breaks down how governments, brands, the manosphere, and figures like Trump and...
26 min
Abandon "Abundance"
Abandon "Abundance"
The latest Democratic fad sidelines equality and justice in favor of a focus on cutting red tape. This is not the path forward.
28 min
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
In this video, I examine why we need solarpunk, ecosocialist, and degrowth-oriented cities. Specifically, I look at what those future cities might look like, and the failures of capitalist cities today. - OCC
28 min
Should the U.S. Build More Public Housing?
Should the U.S. Build More Public Housing?
Public Housing in the United States became notrious for being underfunded, crime-ridden, and poorly maintained. But with the housing crisis continuing to worsen, is it time to reconsider this housing option?
11 min
How Zohran Mamdani Can Fix the Housing Crisis
How Zohran Mamdani Can Fix the Housing Crisis
The US housing crisis isn’t natural — it’s the result of decades of policy decisions made to benefit landlords and the wealthy. Today, millions of Americans are being squeezed by rising rents, home prices, and zoning laws designed to limit affordable housing. But it doesn’t...
8 min
This Film Is Garbage!
This Film Is Garbage! (trailer)
Andrew Nisker is back with a new documentary, This Film is Garbage! Is the future greener—or bleaker—than before? Nisker is determined to find out. In this film, he challenges the Masons, a typical Canadian family of four to keep their trash for 3 months. Andrew compares this...
2 min
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